JAAC sponsored street agitation called off in AJK As Govt withdraw Presidential Ordinance 2024:

English , Kashmir - آزاد جموں کشمیر , Snippets , / Sunday, December 8th, 2024

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Altaf Hamid Rao.
AJK Govt agreed to implement 17-point Charter of demands within next 06 months:

MIRPUR ( AJK): Dec 8: As AJK State government instantly entertained major demand of repealing Presidential Ordinance 2024, Joint Awami (Public) Action Committee sponsored 4-day shutter down cum wheel jam street strike was called off across Azad Jammu Kashmir after the AJK government principally agreed to phased acceptance of 17-point charter of demands tabled by the JAAC by immediately repealing the controversial ‘Peaceful Assembly and Public Order Ordinance 2024’.

The AJK government had, earlier, withdrawan the aforesaid Presidential Ordinance 2024, issuing formal notification late Saturday after the AJK President had advised the government to repeal the Ordinance forthwith.

Our Special Jammu Kashmir State Correspondent Altaf Hamid Rao reports from Mirpur that the JAAC Supreme leader and President Central Traders Organization Shoukat Nawaz Mir formally announced to end the street agitation, which had entered 4th successive day on Sunday throughout Azad Jammu Kashmir, after the government agreed to accept the charter of demands after phased review and formal deliberation over the each demand.

The JAAC Supremo also announced to call off the scheduled January 23, 2025 long March protest programme, which was earlier announced to press the AJK government for early acceptance of the long cherished de.ands of the people of Azad Jammu Kashmir and after the State government, through a written agreement with the Joint Awami Action Committee, issued on Sunday, principally agreed to accept the 17-point charter of demands.

According to the available copy of the agreement, reached between the AJK government and the AJK Joint Awami Action Committee JAAC on Sunday. the following 17 points have been agreed upon by the either side:
The Presidential Ordinance shall be repealed.

All prisoners will be released.

It has been agreed to revise the electricity tariff according to which the electricity tariff above 5kva has been fixed to the tariff of marriage halls and petrol pumps.

36 items of Household Power tariff to be entertained

FIRs filed from 09 May 2023 will be returned today.

Property tax notification will be done today.

Apart from 50 FIRs, the remaining FIRs will be disposed of within 30 days.

The reinstatement of the sacked civil servant Soheb Arif will be done within seven days.

The government job of Azhar Shaheed’s brother will be done in seven days.

Compensation of Rs 10 lakh per person will be paid to the injured within seven days.

During Mangala Dam Raising, the houses that come within the dam limits will be disconnected from their meter connections within one month.

The Azad Patan to Soan Road affected by Azad Patan Dam will be gotten rehabilitated by the Punjab Government.

Future procurement of electricity meters will be done through e-tendering.

Flour quality will be improved and allocation will be increased.

Funds will be released to local government ( CIVIC BODIES) representatives in AJK.

A committee will be formed for student union elections

The quality of flour will be improved and the allocation will be increased. Funds will be released to the municipal representatives. The Charter of Demand of the Joint Public Action Committee will be implemented through negotiations in 06 months